Add the remote access PC business to the latest market to erupt over a patent infringement riff. Last week, 01 Communique Laboratory filed suit against Citrix Systems, makers of the popular GoToMyPC software. The software allows users to logon from a remote site and access their home or office computers. The Canadian-based 01 Communique also makes a remote access solution known as I'm InTouch and claims Citrix infringes on a patent issued to 01 Communique in 2005. "After we received our patent, we started looking around at other products similar to ours," Brian Stringer, the chief financial officer of 01 Communique, told internetnews.com. "We decided they [Citrix] were infringing on certain aspects of our patent." According to the suit filed in a U.S. District Court in Ohio, 01 Communique seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to bar Citrix from marketing and selling GoToMyPC. The patent in dispute relates to systems for providing remote access to a personal computer on the Internet from a remote personal computer. The actual patent is entitled, "System Computer Product and Method for Providing a Private Communication Portal."

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